How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.